Hiya

girls:

208 births since 2002

#5508 (4th percentile)

overall:

208 births since 2002

#7531 (3rd percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Hiya is the #7,531 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 208 recorded births since 2002. This represents the 2.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,508 (3.6% percentile) for all time with 208 births since 2002.

Hiya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2002 (first recorded for girls in 2002). Birth data for Hiya is available in 21 out of the 22 years between 2002 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.

For girls, Hiya reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #925) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Hiya ranks #940 for girls (0.7% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 78.3% of its peak share of births.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hiya".

2002 2023 20022023

Key Statistics

Total Births
208
Peak Births
17
Peak Year
2012
First Recorded
2002
Peak Percentile
1.3%
Current Percentile
0.7%
Peak Rank
#925
Current Rank
#940
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Hiya

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Hiya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 54.1% confident that Hiya is pronounced as HEE-uh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HAI-uh, at 37.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.

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54.1%
2
37.8%
2
8.1%
HEE-uh (2 syllables)
54.1% confidence
HH IY1 AH0
HAI-uh (2 syllables)
37.8% confidence
HH AY1 AH0
HEE-yuh (2 syllables)
8.1% confidence
HH IY1 Y AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like HH IY1 AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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